sipc Frequently Asked Questions

When you license sipc, you will get an email contains the download instruction and the password for downloading.

If sipc can not find the sipc.license file or the license key is wrong, sipc will pop up a dialog box to ask for the license key. When you license sipc, the license is contained in the email. Just put the key in the dialog. Or you can put the license key into sipc.license file and put the sipc.license file into $HOME/.sipc directory (Under Windows, put the file into c:\.sipc directory)

Go to Control Panel/System/Advanced/Environment Variables/User variables to set value of the environment variable 'HOME' to be C:\. If you cannot find 'HOME' in the list, you can simply click on the 'New' button to setup a new one.

Currently, sipc cannot support multiple network interfaces. We are working on a solution to detect multiple network interfaces and ask the user to pick up the one sipc will use.

From the VIC menu, click on the 'Options' button in the 'Encoder' section and select the 'Configure on transmit' option. When you start transmitting, VIC will display the configuration dialog box. You should select the following options

Resolution: 320x240 (NTSC)
Color depth: RGB 16 bits

The options will be saved, so this only needs to be done once.

We are using freewrap to wrap Tcl file into stand alone binary file. We have extended freewrap with some extensions such as GDBM support. We have included freewrap in the sipc source distribution for convinience.

In sipc/freewrap/windows/ directory, there are two files -- makefile_tcl.vc and makefile_tk.vc, please copy these two files to Tcl and Tk's win directory accordingly and use these two files to make the library. The static library will be in the win/static/ directory. Please be aware that these two files are for Tcl/Tk 8.4a1.